Well yes but its only £19 a year. Not bad I think.

You have mentioned hiding the unit out of site. With the Tom Tom and Garmin solutions you HAVE to have the units in the line of site of the satelites. i.e. on the Dash.

With a PDA/smart phone solution you can plce your the bluetooth wirless mouse in the clip behind the mirror, hidden. The phone or PD Unit can then be in your pocket.

John

Yep got my £120 Garmin i3 up and running. Loads of built-in POI's and the one-off speed camera database from pocketgpsworld costs £2. (or £20 a year <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />) <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

As well as full UK on the 256mb card, it has the Garmin European base-map pre-installed which covers:


This little unit is sooo much better than my old PDA-based thingy. When you park up, just pull it off its mount and bung it in the glovebox.

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Sorry John. I meant hiding the unit when your not in the car. Either small enough to fit in the glovebox or to carry with you.

Richard: Let me know how you have got on with it after a week please <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Ah in that case Tom Tom one or Garmin i3, although the magazine review I read said that this was too slow.

John

Will do Graham.

I can report so far that the speed cameras work seamlessly as you drive along. If you're not following a programmed route, the unit also displays your speed, which is useful for checking the accuracy of your speedometer.

Very user-friendly menu-driven interface.

I'm trying to work out how to display POI's on the screen (like petrol stations) - this was a useful feature on my old system. It might not be possible, if so this'll be one of the compromises such a small screen/unit brings.

Also been able to routeplan right into little French towns, the European mapping is a real unexpected bonus <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> You can do all this anywhere as the unit also runs on batteries.

V impressed so far <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Edit: if anyone would like me to email them the speed camera POI file, plus another POI file with 20k+ really useful and up-to-date POI's (for the Garmin units) just PM me <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

PM sent yellafella